"Dimorphism" is a word in ENGLISH
Difference of form between members of the same species,
as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the
partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of
the same species of butterfly.
Crystallization in two independent forms of the same
chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.
The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?
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